Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Modern life is too complicated for baseline existence Agree or disagree?
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
What makes life modern?
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
it's complicated in the sense that our lives are lived better by fighting against more of our biological urges instead of following them
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Kiran Pathakota
@kpats
Yeah, not enough sensible defaults to just sit back and relax.
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moreReese
@morereese
Diasagee. Baseline *existence* can handle all sorts of complication and complexity as far as life goes
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Cluckie
@cluckie
agree. but to be fair, even the garden i dig around in for food is very complicated. the digging is simple.
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greys ↑
@les
Modern life is too complicated for baseline existence…. if you have no control of your attention. not if you have full control of your attention (Not sure this makes total sense, range bound) wouldn’t doubt this is what makes the simulation so attractive.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Plato's Socrates, when asked why he never spends time in nature, despite loving it: "Pardon me, for a I am a lover of learning. Countryside and trees are unwilling to teach me anything, but the humans in the city are." So, a Socratic version of your question is: Does the modern city obstruct human learning itself?
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Lajos Deme
@silentrunner.eth
Agree, the problem is our brains were developed to survive on the savanna, not in a metropolis. Since we won't downgrade to savanna life again, what's left is upgrading our 🧠
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Mirs (amir motlagh)
@mirs
too noisy, but not too complicated
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